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If you’re tuning into the fake news media, Fox News included, you’d be led to believe there’s a hotly contested “primary race” in progress. But let’s set the record straight—there is no actual race. Trump is on track to clinch the primary in a historic landslide, marking one of the least competitive primaries in modern political history. Yet NeverTrumpers like Paul Ryan, a board member at Fox Corp, are likely in denial and desperate to keep the “race” narrative going. If you’ll recall, about a year ago, Paul Ryan confidently made this prediction: As usual, Paul Ryan and the rest...

A very bad, terrible, no good news day for Ron DeSantis today.A $50 million Super PAC scheduled to launch in support of his campaign was forced to abandon all hope after the donors backed out, essentially saying it’s futile. Then, moments later, the Never Back Down super PAC announced they were backing down from Super Tuesday states and halting all door knocking activity in Nevada, California, North Carolina and Texas. The burn rate on cash was too much and no resupply.I said last year, when few would accept my predication of a DeSantis effort, to settle into an unemotional spectator...

WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s federal trial on charges that he unlawfully tried to remain in power following his 2020 election loss to Joe Biden will begin March 4, a judge here ruled Monday. US District Judge Tanya Chutkan set the trial to begin one day before Super Tuesday, when Republican voters in 15 states and territories go to the polls to select their choice to be the party’s 2024 presidential candidate. The trial in the nation’s capital is set to start three weeks before Trump is due to stand trial in Manhattan on charges related to payouts to...

Special Counsel Jack Smith requested a January 2 trial date for President Trump’s charges related to the January 6 case in Washington DC. Last Tuesday Trump was hit with 4 counts in Jack Smith’s January 6 case: Conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. “The Government proposes that trial begin on January 2, 2024, and estimates that its case in chief will take no longer than four to six weeks,” according to a court filing on Thursday. Jack Smith wants Trump convicted...

DES MOINES, Iowa – The super PAC promoting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to have dozens of staff in place in the first 18 states on the Republican presidential primary calendar in the coming weeks, a move indicating that his expected 2024 announcement is drawing closer. The plans, shared with The Associated Press, are part of the group Never Back Down's strategy to begin political organizing for DeSantis all the way through Super Tuesday on March 5 and point to a novel approach the super PAC is attempting ahead of a likely DeSantis run. In Iowa, where the leadoff GOP...

Among the most notable voters who abandoned Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Super Tuesday were Native Americans. Warren spent decades claiming she was “part Cherokee and part Delaware” — even taking a disastrous DNA test to try to prove it. She was ultimately forced to apologize and admit the claim was bogus, as President Trump mocked her as “Pocahontas.” “I think that her claim and digging in her heels and the [DNA test] did hurt her,” Simon Moya-Smith, a 36-year-old Native American activist, told The Post. “That’s why I voted for Bernie on Super Tuesday, and I didn’t vote for...

Super Tuesday had the makings to ring in the new socialist era for the Democrat Party ahead of schedule. The Bernie Bros had waited for this day for years, until the day their movement would be an undeniable force. The day had arrived when all of the uneducated proles would be forced to open their eyes and admit that the revolution was at hand. They were so close, but then Ol' Jello-Brain Joe had to muck up their carefully-laid plans. That's right: the career politician's career politician who has his DNA on every reviled policy from a progressive's perspective is...

After Super Tuesday, all the headlines are heralding former Vice President Joe Biden's remarkable "comeback" from dead in the water to front-runner and presumptive Democratic nominee. The New York Times' Frank Bruni called it "some kind of miracle." Please. It was anything but. It was a calculated, collaborative, last-ditch, no-holds-barred effort by the Democratic National Committee to take the wind out of socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders' sails. Conveniently, for Biden's "miracle," other contenders former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (who had potentially diluted votes for Biden in earlier primaries) dropped out the two days before the Super Tuesday...

So, now the Democrats are choosing between a pair of doddering crustaceans. The Crusty Commie Curmudgeon and the Crusty Comedy Relief both did well enough Tuesday to keep going. Big Chief Warren, whose actual people call corn “corn” and not “maize,” may still go on because she’s an insufferable monster whose transcendent yearning to nag us into schoolmarm’d submission knows no bounds, plus because the establishment wants her in the race siphoning Chablis socialist votes away from her Marx brother. But the Hapless Halfling dropped out, a half-billion bucks lighter, and he’s not just returning to his burrow. He’ll want...

While Bernie & Biden stole the spotlight on Super Tuesday, it is PRESIDENT TRUMP'S vote totals that we should really be paying attention to. Check out these shocking numbers that should scare the living hell out of every Democrat in America: If the tweet above doesn't load, here is the text version: Trump 2020 vs. Obama 2012 primary results: (Numbers on the left are Trump, numbers on the right are Obama) New Hampshire: 129,696 / 49,080 Oklahoma: 273,562 / 64,389 Massachusetts: 207,495 / 127,909 Tennessee: 324,119 / 80,705 Vermont: 33,863 / 40,247 Alabama: 690,381 / 241,167 Texas: 1,584,661 / 520,410...

Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh sees evidence that his 2008-spawned “Operation Chaos” strategy is alive and well and at work in multiple Super Tuesday primary states...“Operation Chaos is more widespread than simply in North Carolina,” said Rush. As evidence, Limbaugh cited a report from a Washington Post columnist, who tweeted: “I was at an event last night where an experienced TX analyst said the 5% of the TX Dem early vote was from people who had voted in the Republican primary in the past four statewide elections.”

Numbers on the left are Trump, numbers on the right are Obama) New Hampshire: 129,696 / 49,080 Oklahoma: 273,562 / 64,389 Massachusetts: 207,495 / 127,909 Tennessee: 324,119 / 80,705 Vermont: 33,863 / 40,247 Alabama: 690,381 / 241,167 Texas: 1,584,661 / 520,410 (w/ 66% in) North Carolina: 704,328 / 766,077 (w/ 69% in) Trump is absolutely trouncing Obama's 2012 numbers, which paints a very clear picture of the energy behind Trump in the 2020 election.

While some in the media spent much of Super Tuesday reveling in Joe Biden's awakening from political death, they entirely missed the untold story of Super Tuesday: President Donald Trump's record-breaking vote counts and turnout. Despite being an uncontested incumbent, President Trump managed to break several turnout and vote-count records in blue states and key swing states. In Vermont and Minnesota, Trump's vote totals beat every past incumbent's total in the last four decades. In Maine, the president's vote total bested every primary candidate's total since before President Ronald Reagan. In Massachusetts, the story was similar, with Trump aggregating a...

South Carolina voted just five days ago. The week prior — the date I’ve highlighted on the chart — polls seemed to confirm that Biden’s longterm decline in SC had accelerated, maybe into a collapse. Meanwhile, Sanders had been inching up for months. By February 21, the two candidates were in a statistical tie. But that’s not what happened on primary day, not by a longshot. The final result was that Biden did slightly better than his best poll numbers during the entire race, all the way back in November. Texas tells a similar story. In polls there, Biden appeared...

The Super Tuesday narrative is that Biden was vindicated and heÂ’s stronger than ever, but the primary map and the upcoming states suggest otherwise. With a sweep of the south and key victories in Minnesota and Massachusetts, the media narrative today will be all about how Joe Biden is the comeback kid, back from the dead, risen like a Phoenix from the ashes. That sort of thing.ItÂ’s the kind of story the media loves. They love it so much it doesnÂ’t matter whether itÂ’s true, or whether the media was writing Biden off less than a week ago. The surprise...

VIDEO The mainstream media is celebrating Joe Biden doing better than expected on Super Tuesday. So is it all over with Sleepy Joe sailing to the nomination? If you think that, you will probably change your mind after watching the leftist RAGE over the Super Tuesday results as exemplified by the reaction of Cenk Uygur of The Young Turks. No way, under any circumstances, will Cenk or his fellow leftists accept Biden as the nominee as he made clear in very entertaining fashion. Yes, meltdowns are fun to watch but they can also be quite informative as well.

If you need a laugh, then here you go. This is Cenk Uygur of the Young Turks freaking out that Sanders is about to lose again due to a rigged DNC Primary. https://twitter.com/CHIZMAGA/status/1235225336704430080   

The obvious news is that many voters, after staring into the abyss of Bernie Sanders’ socialism and seeing Fidel Castro looking back at them, are turning to Biden as their preferred candidate. Biden, after looking like a loser last week, is looking like a contender this week. The less obvious news, though, is that in many states there was a real fire among Republicans, even though Donald Trump is a virtually uncontested incumbent. People ought to be staying home but in several states they are voting for Trump in droves. The following data is from Decision Desk HQ, as of...

The key takeaways from the Super Tuesday result so far… Joe Biden won significantly, and it looks like those wins were by design. The media are amplifying a strong Biden narrative on behalf of the professional political class within the DNC Club.

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